Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rhetorical exclamation or ejaculation. See ecphonesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rhetoric interjection; ecphonesis

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek a thing called out.

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